Women's work
Subtitle: an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
By: edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780195331981; 9780195331998
Subjects: Historiography; African American historians; Intellectual life; African American women authors; Sources; African American women; African Americans; Women historians; History
Description: "This anthology aims to bring together writings by African-American women between 1832 and 1920, the period when they began to write for American audiences and to use history to comment on political and social issues of the day. The pieces are by more familiar nineteenth-century writers in Black America--like Maria Stewart, Francis E. W. Harper, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson--as well as lesser-known mothers and teachers whose participation in their local educational systems thrust them into national intellectual conversations. Each piece will have a headnote providing biographical information about its author as well as contextual information about its publication and the topic being discussed. The volume will contain a substantial introduction to the overall enterprise of Black women's historical writings. Because the editors are both trained in American studies and religious history, their introduction will particularly highlight religious themes and venues in which these writings were presented. This book should appeal to general readers of books like those in the Schomburg Library series, as well as those who work and teach American history, African American studies, women's studies, American literature, and American religious history"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: "An address delivered before the African-American Female Intelligence Society of America" / Maria Stewart (1832); title: "Education," "Death of the Christian," "Louisa Sebury," "The natives of America" / Ann Plato (1841); title: "Liberty for slaves" (1857), "Moses : the story of the Nile" (1869), "Then and now" (1895) / Frances E.W. Harper; title: "The life and public services of Martin R. Delany" / Frank A. Rollin (1883); title: "Woman's place in the work of the denomination" / Mary V. Cook (1887); title: "Welcome to Honorable F. Douglass," "Wilberforce," "They are coming," "Resting : in memoriam of Mrs. Bishop Turner" / Josephine Heard (1890); title: "The status of woman in America" / Anna Julia Cooper (1892); title: "Some Afro-American women of mark" / S. Elizabeth Frazier (1892); title: "Woman's work" / Virginia Broughton (1894); title: "The work of the Afro-American woman" / Mrs. N.F. Mossell (1894); title: "How the Church can best help the condition of the masses" / Hardie Martin (1896); title: "The awakening of the Afro-American woman" / Victoria Earle Matthews (1897); title: "Some parallels of history" / A.E. Johnson (1899); title: "Heirs of slavery. A little drama of today" / Katherine Davis Tillman (1901); title: "Of one blood, or, The hidden self" (1902-1903), "Educators" (1902) / Pauline Hopkins; title: "A narrative of the Negro" / Leila Amos Pendleton (1912); title: "Unchained, 1863," "A hero of San Juan Hill" / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1914); title: "Wonderful Ethiopians of the ancient Cushite empire" / Drusilla Dunjee Houston (1926); title: "Harriet Tubman" / Hallie Quinn Brown (1926).